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Table of Contents

Introducing the DFL-500 ................................................................................ 9

Firewall............................................................................................................................................................ 9

Network Address Translation (NAT)........................................................................................................... 9

Transparent mode .................................................................................................................................... 10

Hacker prevention and protection................................................................................................................. 10

VPN............................................................................................................................................................... 10

Virus and worm protection ............................................................................................................................ 11

Web content filtering ..................................................................................................................................... 11

Secure installation, configuration, and management.................................................................................... 12

Web-based manager ................................................................................................................................ 12

Command line interface............................................................................................................................ 12

Logging and reporting............................................................................................................................... 12

About this document ..................................................................................................................................... 13

Customer service and technical support....................................................................................................... 13

Installing the DFL-500 .................................................................................. 14

Before you start............................................................................................................................................. 14

NAT mode install ...................................................................................................................................... 14

Transparent Mode Install .......................................................................................................................... 15

Unpacking the DFL-500 ................................................................................................................................ 16

Mounting the DFL-500 .................................................................................................................................. 16

Powering on the DFL-500 ............................................................................................................................. 17

Using the firewall setup wizard ..................................................................................................................... 17

Connecting to the web-based manager.................................................................................................... 17

Starting the firewall setup wizard.............................................................................................................. 18

Reconnecting to the web-based manager................................................................................................ 18

Completing your PPPoE configuration ..................................................................................................... 18

Configuring the DFL-500 from the CLI.......................................................................................................... 19

Connecting to the CLI ............................................................................................................................... 19

Configuring the DFL-500 to run in NAT mode .......................................................................................... 19

Configuring the DFL-500 to run in Transparent mode..............................................................................20

Connecting the DFL-500 to your network ..................................................................................................... 21

Configuring your internal network ................................................................................................................. 22

Completing the configuration ........................................................................................................................ 22

Setting the date and time.......................................................................................................................... 22

Firewall Configuration ................................................................................. 23

Policies.......................................................................................................................................................... 23

Types of policies ....................................................................................................................................... 23

Policy information ..................................................................................................................................... 24

Default policy ............................................................................................................................................ 24

DFL-500 User’s Manual